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  • 31 Oct 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

Article Are large groups of reasonably informed and motivated people able to make better decisions than a small group of experts? James Surowiecki, in his recent book, The Wisdom of Crowds, reports on a diverse body of work that suggests... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Research Brief: Political Capital

particular responded more strongly to such efforts than their Republican counterparts, a fact the researchers argue helped push President Obama into office. Advertisements, on the other hand, worked better on less partisan voters, with many undecided or independent... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409003 In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement Harvard Business School Case 709-403 As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

different results and have divergent implications. We find evidence that the choice to pool is influenced by changes in the underlying newsvendor model parameters in our setting. In robustness tests, we show that choosing a pooling View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

participate in the experience. After months of work, in April 2020, the task force presented a comprehensive report to then-Dean Nitin Nohria that outlined a number of challenges and offered a range of recommendations. Fetter and Isaac... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

  PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

substantial agreement between the funding decisions of crowds and experts. Where crowds and experts disagree, it is far more likely to be a case where the crowd is willing to fund projects that experts may not. Examining the outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

situations are common, but they are difficult to analyze because of the plethora of justifiable equilibrium outcomes that result. To address this, researchers employ belief refinements, which pare the set of equilibrium View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

Instead, to evaluate possible strategies and tactics, negotiation analysts generally focus on changes in perceptions of the "zone of possible agreement" and the (subjective) distribution of possible negotiated outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. European IFRS adoption represented a major milestone towards financial reporting convergence yet spurred controversy reaching the highest levels of government. We find a... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Fostering a Supportive Community

After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States. That experience challenged his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

McGinn Abstract—Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

27 reported transplants involving an exchange; in 2007, there were121 such transplants; and in 2009, 304.) "What would really help us have a thick market would be to have a well-organized national market," Roth says. "So... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 20 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

the value of the assets." In their paper, the authors recount how, over the past decade, risks have been repackaged to create triple-A-rated securities. By mid-2007, they write, 37,000 structured finance issues in the United States had earned this top mark. In... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

compared this trend to the soaring increase during this period in the compensation of other "stars," such as top baseball, basketball, and football players. Reports about the high pay of star athletes are often greeted with awe... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

great. “We thought if the company was continuing to do well, we’d see managers finding ways to convey that—wink, wink,” says Froot, who held the André R. Jakurski Chair before retiring from HBS in 2013. “That’s when we found this surprising result in direct opposition... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

borrowers and lenders is feasible, the incentive effect of credit reporting is negligible, as bilateral banking relationships discipline borrowers. Information sharing nevertheless affects market outcome by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

control over the whole thing.” Another interviewee reported that coming up with a daily plan “took some time,” and all agreed that being “diligent” about daily routines was crucial. Some executives noted that the schedule helped... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai